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2013

Monday, February 25th

two takes

“When Something Is Wrong With My Baby” (I. Hayes & D. Porter)

Sam & Dave, live, Germany (Offenbach), 1967


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Isaac Hayes, TV Show (Top of the Pops), England, 1995


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“The World Contracted to a Recognizable Image”
by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

at the small end of an illness
there was a picture
probably Japanese
which filled my eye

an idiotic picture
except it was all I recognized
the wall lived for me in that picture
I clung to it as a fly

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2013

Sunday, February 24th

back to church

The Wings of Faith, of Waynesboro, Mississippi (pop. 5,197), live, 2012

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2013

Saturday, February 23rd

This seems, somehow, to these ears, anyway, to fit a day when the ashes of my mother-in-law are being buried.

Revolutionary Ensemble (Leroy Jenkins, violin; Sirone, bass; Jerome Cooper, drums), “Chicago” (Live at Moosham Castle, 1977)

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2013

Wednesday, February 20th

basement jukebox

Magic Sam (AKA Samuel Maghett, 1937-1969), Cobra Records, Chicago

“All Your Love,” 1957

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“Love Me with a Feeling,” 1957

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“Everything Gonna Be Alright,” 1958

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“21 Days In Jail,” 1958

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taking a break

I’m taking some time off—back soon.

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2013

Tuesday, February 19th

Kidd Jordan Quartet (KJ, tenor saxophone; Billy Bang, violin; William Parker, bass; Hamid Drake, drums), New York (Vision Festival), 2008

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musical thoughts

We tend to take musical instruments for granted, as if their existence were inevitable. But the fact that something exists doesn’t mean it had to. We could’ve been born into a world that never heard a violin.

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“What kind of heaven is that, you can’t have your records?”

—Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue

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2013

Sunday, February 17th

Voices, hands.

Guitar, bass, drums.

And soul.

Sensational Friendly Brothers, Canton, Mississippi (St. James Missionary Baptist Church), 1978

“Where Shall I Be (When the First Trumpet Sounds)”



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“Heaven Is My Goal”


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mail

Thanks, Richard—great clips too.

—George Saunders, featured here the other day

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2013

Thursday, February 14th

a week in New Orleans: day four

Mardi Gras Indians (Fat Tuesday, 2012)

Wild Magnolias


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Two Indian Tribes Meet in Treme

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2013

Monday, February 11th

a week in New Orleans: day one

In no other city are the streets so musical.

Treme Sidewalk Steppers Second Line, 2/1/09

Rebirth Brass Band, “It’s All Over Now” (B. Womack & S. Womack)


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Kevin Harris (tenor saxophone) & other Sixth Ward musicians


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This is a city, too, for stylin’ dogs.

Barkus Mardi Gras Parade, 1/27/13

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2013

Friday, February 8th

only rock ’n’ roll

Some bands I keep coming back to.

The Dirtbombs, “Ever Lovin’ Man,” San Francisco (Amoeba Music), 2008


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Odd, I have now a mania for shortness. Whenever I read my own or other people’s works it all seems to me not short enough.

—Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

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2013

Wednesday, February 6th

alone

Hamid Drake, drums, Paris, 2010


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Last night I completed a long, meandering journey I began several years ago, finishing the last of the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. If you’ve ever thought about making this trip yourself, I have just one word of advice: go. The minutes, and hours, I’ve spent in Proust’s company—often just a few pages at a time—are among the most rewarding, and pleasurable, I’ve had.

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One, two, three. Time, time!

—William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (II, 2, 51)

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